June 2002 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-l] Web-based Surveys
by Scott_Crawford＠marketstrategies.com 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

I recently wrote a review of three software packages. The packages were chosen to represent three "kinds" of web survey systems. The three included Perseus SurveySolutions for the Web 4.0, zTelligence 2.0, and SPSS mrInterview. The review is in press... due to be released in the August 2002 edition of Field Methods. Full citation as follows: Crawford, S. (2002) "Evaluation of Web Survey Data Collection Systems." Field Methods. Vol. 14, No. 3. August. pp. 349-363. If you are interested, let me know and I'd be glad to send you a reprint when you get them. But in summary... there are a lot of low cost web survey systems out there. However, the adage "You get what you pay for." definitely applies in this area. And that is enhanced by the fact that the more it costs, the more complex/robust/capable the system is... which means the support costs (in internet infrastructure and people) greatly increase. Organizations that committ to maintaining a high quality web survey system with the proper infrastructure to support it shell out over $100k annually to do so. Because of this cost, another alternative (outsourcing), becomes very attractive for those who need to do web surveys to high academic standards, but don't have the volume to justify such an infrastructure. SC ********************************** Scott Crawford Research Director - Social Science Research http://www.ms-interactive.com 734/542-7796 734/661-0323 (fax) Berquist(a)uts.cc. utexas.edu To: air-l(a)aoir.org Sent by: cc: air-l-admin@aoir Subject: [Air-l] Web-based Surveys .org 06/28/2002 11:42 AM Please respond to air-l A few months ago, there was some discussion about online surveys--particularly regarding methodology and design. My question is more practical--can anyone recommend software to design a web-displayed survey that will easily capture data into a backend database? I've looked at SPSS Data Entry (TM), but would like to receive recommendations from others who have completed web-. based surveys and are pleased with the software they have worked with. Thanks, Lon Berquist Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute The University of Texas at Austin _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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DRAFT statement by AoIR ethics working committee
by k.kyriakopoulou＠btinternet.com 28 Jun '02

28 Jun '02

Dear all, May you please confirm the e-address where the DRAFT statement by AoIR ethics working committee "Ethical decision-making and Internet Research" is available? I would like to have a general idea this, before attending the conference in Maastricht. Please note, that the address that Charles Ess kindly provided on 06/06/02 does not seem to work. Thank you Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou PhD cand. University of Kent at Canterbury,U.K.

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RE: [Air-l] Book Reviews: Call for Reviewers
by Randy Kluver 27 Jun '02

27 Jun '02

Sorry to all for using the reply function poorly! Randy Kluver Information and Communication Management FASS 3, #04-16 National University of Singapore Singapore, 117570 (65) 874-8755, fax (65) 779-4911 -----Original Message----- From: Randy Kluver Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 8:18 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: RE: [Air-l] Book Reviews: Call for Reviewers David, I would like to review Prometheus wired Randy Kluver Information and Communication Management FASS 3, #04-16 National University of Singapore Singapore, 117570 (65) 874-8755, fax (65) 779-4911 -----Original Message----- From: david silver [mailto:dsilver@u.washington.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 4:54 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Book Reviews: Call for Reviewers AirFolk, *** feel free to distribute *** The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Washington <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs> invites academics, artists, and activists to review a new batch of recently received books. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. Reviewers are sought for the following titles: Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (Univ of Chicago Press, 2000) Stephanie Browner, Stephen Pulsford, & Richard Sears, Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars (Garland, 2000) Paul Buchheit, Journey to Kumbooda (American House, 2002) Erik P. Bucy, Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader (Wadsworth, 2002) Charles Ess with Fay Sudweeks, eds, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (SUNY Press, 2001) Domenico Fiormonte & Jonathan Usher, eds, New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications (Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, 2001) Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause, eds, Cyberlines: Languages and Cultures of the Internet (James Nicholas Publishers, 2000) Loss Pequeno Glazier, Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Univ of Alabama Press, 2002) Ken Goldberg & Roland Siegwart, eds, Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots (MIT, 2002) Eileen Green & Alison Adam, eds, Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption, and Identity (Routledge, 2001) James E. Katz and Mark Aakhus, eds, Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Leigh Keeble & Brian D. Loader, eds, Community Informatics: Shaping the Computer-Mediated Social Relations (Routledge, 2001) Sally R. Munt, ed, Technospaces: Inside the New Media (Continuum, 2001) Colette Nicolle & Julio Abascal, eds, Inclusive Design Guidelines for HCI (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2001) Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz, eds, The Internet and Health Communication: Experiences and Expectations (Sage, 2001) Donald A. Schon, Bish Sanyal, & William J. Mitchell, eds, High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology (MIT 1999) Greg M. Smith, ed, On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology (NYU Press, 1999) Thomas Swiss, ed, Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web (NYU Press, 2000) Frank Webster, ed, Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics (Routledge, 2001) Sally Wyatt, Flis Henwood, Nod Miller, & Peter Senker, eds, Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society (Routledge, 2000) In general, RCCS book reviews run about 1500-2000 words. They are offered to the widest possible community of cyberculture scholars, including academic scholars from across the disciplines, community activists, digital artists, teachers, students, explorers, and builders of cyberculture. To get an idea of the reviews' style, please visit <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/books/> *WARNING/PLEA FOR HELP* -- The last two call for reviewers each generated over 200 requests to review. To make our job easier, please read the following before responding: 1. If interested in reviewing one of these titles, respond directly to David Silver (dsilver(a)u.washington.edu) You may wish to use another one of David's accounts; don't use it. You may feel compelled to reply to the whole mailing list; don't do it. 2. In your e-mail, please include your name and affiliation; 3. Please select no more than 2 books that are particularly suited towards your own research interests; 4. Include a brief statement of your qualifications to review the selected title. The more detail, the better. No attached articles, dissertations, etc please; 5. Suggest a date by when you can have a draft of the review delivered. If you are super busy at this time, please consider signing up for the next round of reviews. DEADLINE TO RESPOND: July 5, 2002. Thank you for your time, david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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RE: [Air-l] Book Reviews: Call for Reviewers
by Randy Kluver 27 Jun '02

27 Jun '02

David, I would like to review Prometheus wired Randy Kluver Information and Communication Management FASS 3, #04-16 National University of Singapore Singapore, 117570 (65) 874-8755, fax (65) 779-4911 -----Original Message----- From: david silver [mailto:dsilver@u.washington.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 4:54 AM To: air-l(a)aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Book Reviews: Call for Reviewers AirFolk, *** feel free to distribute *** The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Washington <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs> invites academics, artists, and activists to review a new batch of recently received books. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. Reviewers are sought for the following titles: Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (Univ of Chicago Press, 2000) Stephanie Browner, Stephen Pulsford, & Richard Sears, Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars (Garland, 2000) Paul Buchheit, Journey to Kumbooda (American House, 2002) Erik P. Bucy, Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader (Wadsworth, 2002) Charles Ess with Fay Sudweeks, eds, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (SUNY Press, 2001) Domenico Fiormonte & Jonathan Usher, eds, New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications (Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, 2001) Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause, eds, Cyberlines: Languages and Cultures of the Internet (James Nicholas Publishers, 2000) Loss Pequeno Glazier, Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Univ of Alabama Press, 2002) Ken Goldberg & Roland Siegwart, eds, Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots (MIT, 2002) Eileen Green & Alison Adam, eds, Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption, and Identity (Routledge, 2001) James E. Katz and Mark Aakhus, eds, Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Leigh Keeble & Brian D. Loader, eds, Community Informatics: Shaping the Computer-Mediated Social Relations (Routledge, 2001) Sally R. Munt, ed, Technospaces: Inside the New Media (Continuum, 2001) Colette Nicolle & Julio Abascal, eds, Inclusive Design Guidelines for HCI (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2001) Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz, eds, The Internet and Health Communication: Experiences and Expectations (Sage, 2001) Donald A. Schon, Bish Sanyal, & William J. Mitchell, eds, High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology (MIT 1999) Greg M. Smith, ed, On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology (NYU Press, 1999) Thomas Swiss, ed, Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web (NYU Press, 2000) Frank Webster, ed, Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics (Routledge, 2001) Sally Wyatt, Flis Henwood, Nod Miller, & Peter Senker, eds, Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society (Routledge, 2000) In general, RCCS book reviews run about 1500-2000 words. They are offered to the widest possible community of cyberculture scholars, including academic scholars from across the disciplines, community activists, digital artists, teachers, students, explorers, and builders of cyberculture. To get an idea of the reviews' style, please visit <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/books/> *WARNING/PLEA FOR HELP* -- The last two call for reviewers each generated over 200 requests to review. To make our job easier, please read the following before responding: 1. If interested in reviewing one of these titles, respond directly to David Silver (dsilver(a)u.washington.edu) You may wish to use another one of David's accounts; don't use it. You may feel compelled to reply to the whole mailing list; don't do it. 2. In your e-mail, please include your name and affiliation; 3. Please select no more than 2 books that are particularly suited towards your own research interests; 4. Include a brief statement of your qualifications to review the selected title. The more detail, the better. No attached articles, dissertations, etc please; 5. Suggest a date by when you can have a draft of the review delivered. If you are super busy at this time, please consider signing up for the next round of reviews. DEADLINE TO RESPOND: July 5, 2002. Thank you for your time, david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l(a)aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l

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RE: CI/CN Mini-Conference: Second Call
by Michael Gurstein 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

Community Informatics/Community Networking Research Mini-Conference Montreal, Canada, Oct. 8, 2002 (Second Call: Note Revisions) At the recent 'Shaping the Network Society' Conference in Seattle sponsored by CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, http://www.cpsr.org, it was agreed to organize a day long Mini-Conference on Community Informatics/Community Networking Research on Oct. 8 in Montreal, Canada in conjunction with the World Forum on Community Networks (Oct.7- 12 ) <http://globalcn2002.ca> This is a follow-on to a successful series of research panels organized in conjunction with the Global Congress of Community Networks held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, <http://globalcn2001.org> in December 2001. Interested researchers are invited to submit proposals, short position statements, posters, panel sessions, project reports,and/or completed papers for peer review for presentation at the conference and for possible future publication as proceedings or as a special issue of an appropriate journal (remembering that space and time for this event is severely limited). As appropriate, research panels, workshops, and other presentation/discussion formats will be made available. It is also the intention to work initiate a more formalized research CI/CN research network at this meeting. "Community Informatics" is understood as being the study of the use of Information and Communications Technologies to enable community processes and "Community Networking" is understood as the study of community networks, their development, operation and their influence in support of community processes and community empowerment. Among the topics which will be included are: 1. Theoretical background to CI/CN a. Computer Supported Collaborative Work b. Human Computer Interface Studies c. Social Informatics d. Social Shaping of Technology/Actor Network Theory 2. Review of Existing Research a. Meta-analysis of CI/CN oriented project/program research b. Meta-evaluation and evaluation strategies for CI/CN project research c. Methodologies for research 3. Community based E-health initiatives 4. Community networks, community technology centers, telecentres and public access facilities 5. Community based E-enabled environmental and resource management and advocacy initiatives 6. Locally based E-Commerce and E-enabled local/community economic development 7. E-enabled neighborhood management and advocacy initiatives (GIS) 8. Community based E-advocacy initiatives 9. CI/CN and civic authorities/civic development 10. CI/CN oriented software and hardware R&D 11. CI/CN and Open Source 12. CI/CN and public policy including global ICT for development initiatives 13. CI/CN and development in Less Developed Countries 14. CI/CN and national (information infrastructure) policies and programs" 15. CI/CN possibilities, principles and liberatory visions. Travel funding will not be available for participation in this conference. Local arrangements will be provided through a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Proposals should be received no later than July 15 and are to be sent to: Dra. Susana Finquelievich Secretaria de Investigacion Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Buenos Aires sfinquel(a)mail.fsoc.uba.ar Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. (Visiting) Professor: School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ gurstein(a)njit.edu Additional information can be obtained from the (ad hoc) steering group for this mini-conference: Michael Bieber, NJIT, USA -- bieber(a)homer.njit.edu Fiorella de Cindio, U. of Milan, Italy -- fiorella.de.cindio(a)rcm.dsi.unimi.it Andrew Clement, U. of Toronto, Canada -- clement(a)fis.utoronto.ca Peter Day, U. of Brighton, UK -- P.Day(a)btinternet.com Peter Mambrey, Germany -- mambrey(a)fit.fraunhofer.de Michel Menou, City Univerity London, UK -- Michel.Menou(a)wanadoo.fr Ken Pigg, U. of Missouri, USA -- PiggK(a)missouri.edu <mailto:PiggK@missouri.edu> Doug Schuler, The Evergreen State College, USA -- Douglas(a)scn.org Wal Taylor, Central Queensland U., Australia -- w.taylor(a)cqu.edu.au

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Book Reviews: Call for Reviewers
by david silver 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

AirFolk, *** feel free to distribute *** The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Washington <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs> invites academics, artists, and activists to review a new batch of recently received books. The reviews reflect a modest attempt to locate critically various contours of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of cyberculture studies. Reviewers are sought for the following titles: Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (Univ of Chicago Press, 2000) Stephanie Browner, Stephen Pulsford, & Richard Sears, Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars (Garland, 2000) Paul Buchheit, Journey to Kumbooda (American House, 2002) Erik P. Bucy, Living in the Information Age: A New Media Reader (Wadsworth, 2002) Charles Ess with Fay Sudweeks, eds, Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (SUNY Press, 2001) Domenico Fiormonte & Jonathan Usher, eds, New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications (Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, 2001) Donna Gibbs and Kerri-Lee Krause, eds, Cyberlines: Languages and Cultures of the Internet (James Nicholas Publishers, 2000) Loss Pequeno Glazier, Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries (Univ of Alabama Press, 2002) Ken Goldberg & Roland Siegwart, eds, Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots (MIT, 2002) Eileen Green & Alison Adam, eds, Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption, and Identity (Routledge, 2001) James E. Katz and Mark Aakhus, eds, Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Leigh Keeble & Brian D. Loader, eds, Community Informatics: Shaping the Computer-Mediated Social Relations (Routledge, 2001) Sally R. Munt, ed, Technospaces: Inside the New Media (Continuum, 2001) Colette Nicolle & Julio Abascal, eds, Inclusive Design Guidelines for HCI (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2001) Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz, eds, The Internet and Health Communication: Experiences and Expectations (Sage, 2001) Donald A. Schon, Bish Sanyal, & William J. Mitchell, eds, High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology (MIT 1999) Greg M. Smith, ed, On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology (NYU Press, 1999) Thomas Swiss, ed, Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web (NYU Press, 2000) Frank Webster, ed, Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics (Routledge, 2001) Sally Wyatt, Flis Henwood, Nod Miller, & Peter Senker, eds, Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society (Routledge, 2000) In general, RCCS book reviews run about 1500-2000 words. They are offered to the widest possible community of cyberculture scholars, including academic scholars from across the disciplines, community activists, digital artists, teachers, students, explorers, and builders of cyberculture. To get an idea of the reviews' style, please visit <http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/books/> *WARNING/PLEA FOR HELP* -- The last two call for reviewers each generated over 200 requests to review. To make our job easier, please read the following before responding: 1. If interested in reviewing one of these titles, respond directly to David Silver (dsilver(a)u.washington.edu) You may wish to use another one of David's accounts; don't use it. You may feel compelled to reply to the whole mailing list; don't do it. 2. In your e-mail, please include your name and affiliation; 3. Please select no more than 2 books that are particularly suited towards your own research interests; 4. Include a brief statement of your qualifications to review the selected title. The more detail, the better. No attached articles, dissertations, etc please; 5. Suggest a date by when you can have a draft of the review delivered. If you are super busy at this time, please consider signing up for the next round of reviews. DEADLINE TO RESPOND: July 5, 2002. Thank you for your time, david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver To SUBSCRIBE to cyberculture-announce, a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates, email: listproc(a)u.washington.edu; No subject is needed. In the body, type: subscribe cyberculture-announce

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Young People and New Media - New book announcement
by Livingstone,S 25 Jun '02

25 Jun '02

* * * New Book Announcement * * * Young People and New Media Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science Combining a critical literature review with original empirical research on young people's use of new media, this book provides an in-depth discussion of the increasingly complex relationship between the media and childhood, the family and the home. We can no longer imagine our daily lives without media and communication technologies. At the start of the 21st century, the home is being transformed into the site of a multimedia culture. This book looks at the discussions around the potential benefits of this new media and asks: What influences are the new media having on childhood and young people? Are these technologies changing the nature of young people's leisure and sociability? April 2002 London: Sage 240 pages Cloth (0-7619-6466-5) £50.00 Paper (0-7619-6467-3) £16.99 For related publications, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/depts/media/people/slivingstone/index.html

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Conference Announcement
by Adrian Miles 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

Apologies for any cross posting that may occur. This announcement may be of interest to some AOIR list members. It's a series that Espen Aarseth started and has always been an excellent event and <pr on>this one will be great as I'm intending to make sure people meet each other and exchange stuff around the event and not just lots of talking heads...</pr off>. ---------- [keywords] computer games, hypertext, graphic narrative, new media narrative, digital arts and culture conference, streaming media, interactive performance, digital aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art, academics, artists. [announcement] Digital Arts and Culture::2003 MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds The 2003 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) international conference series is to be held on the city campus of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia from May 19 to 23, 2003. MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds will bring together an international cohort of artists, practitioners, developers, theorists and teachers to define and explore major themes and ideas confronting contemporary new media practice. The 2003 event will explore the theory and practice of computer gaming, ergodic narrative, distributed and/or immersive performance environments, and streaming media with a particular focus on the real, imagined and wished for worlds that these things create. [what is the Digital Arts and Culture conference?] DAC was founded in 1998 by Espen Aarseth as an international conference focusing on new media theory and practice in critical contexts. DAC seeks to bring together new media artists and theorists in a spirit of collaboration and exploration. It has nurtured a significant international community of young and innovative researchers, artists and scholars in the interdisciplinary field of new media, and has become the benchmark conference for research and collaborative endeavour in new media. DAC offers a forum that recognises the importance of bringing together leading practitioners from art and theory for the exchange of ideas and to develop international professional networks and knowledge economies. MelbourneDAC:streaming wor(l)ds intends to continue this role through the papers, panels, forums, and exhibition it hosts, and the innovative series of collaborative workshops and events that will be undertaken by all conference participants. The mission of MelbourneDAC is to exchange ideas and promote new developments in digital arts and culture and to ensure that all participants develop relevant and sustainable professional communities. A call for papers will be distributed shortly. A call for entries for the MelbourneDAC::streaming wor(l)ds exhibition will be distributed shortly. All conference material will be published (all participants will receive their copy during MelbourneDac). A mentoring process will be available to postgraduate students and new academics who wish to have feedback in the development of their contributions. A moderated announcement list for all interested in receiving additional information and updates is available. Subscription details at http://monaro.adc.rmit.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/dac/ a web site containing this and other information is located at http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/ [and this is from?] adrian miles <adrian.miles(a)rmit.edu.au> conference chair antoanetta ivanova <antoanetta(a)novamediaarts.net> conference producer ----- end of announcement -- + lecturer in new media and cinema studies [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog] + interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]

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Fwd: Convergence: Call for Papers on Digital Cinema
by Wendy Robinson 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

Submission deadline is nearly a year away. >X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 >X-Authentication-Warning: xl5.luton.ac.uk: majordom set sender to >owner-convergence-l(a)luton.ac.uk using -f >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:42:20 +0100 >Subject: call for papers >From: Convergence <convergence(a)luton.ac.uk> >To: <convergence-l(a)luton.ac.uk> > >Dear Colleague, > >Please find below a call for papers for a special issue, to be edited by >Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith: > > >Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >Special Issue on Digital Cinema: What¹s the Difference? > >For Volume 9 Number 4 (Winter 2003) Convergence is planning a special issue >on: > >Digital Cinema: What¹s the Difference? > >- Is digital cinema in fact cinema or is it a kind of HDTV adapted for >exhibition in movie-theatres? >- Or is it just cinema as before but using digital support in place of >celluloid and with added special effects? >- Or is it a complete revolution in cinema, cutting the last links between >cinema and the photograph as imprints of reality? >- Or is it a means by which reality can be brought closer to the film >spectator thanks to flexible and easily used technology? > >Contributions are invited on any aspect of digital cinema technology, >economics, cultural or aesthetic implications or on any phase of the >process from production though post-production to distribution and >exhibition. > >Submission deadline for this issue is: 30 April 2003 > >Proposals for articles or completed papers should be sent to Professor >Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Department of Media Arts, University of Luton, 75 >Castle Street, Luton, LU1 3AJ, United Kingdom, E-mail: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith >@luton.ac.uk

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Anthropology & Sociology
by Rachel Harris 21 Jun '02

21 Jun '02

Dear All I'm in the process of reviewing different perspectives on online (learning) communities. As someone from a sciences/psychology background, I would very much appreciate a definition of the distinction between anthropology and sociology in this area. From what I've read so far, and on a very basic level, it seems that anthropology would focus on the differences amongst people - their shared values and meanings - in different communities; while a sociological approach might be more interested in the structures, social order, etc within different communities. Can anyone point me to an appropriate article, or suggest a definition? Thanks for your help. Rachel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Rachel A Harris Scottish Centre for Research into On-Line Learning and Assessment University of Glasgow Florentine House 53 Hillhead Street Glasgow, G12 8QQ 0141 330 2878 r.harris(a)udcf.gla.ac.uk www.scrolla.ac.uk

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